Accademia di Belle Arti (ABA), Perugia
Academy of Fine Arts (ABA) Pietro Vannucci (Accademia di Belle Arti (ABA)), located in Perugia, is one of the most famous institutions of art higher education in Italy. Not only classical disciplines are taught here. The Academy is trying to keep pace with the times. Therefore, there is a creative workshop where students learn laser cutting or 3D printing. Tourists will be interested in the very old building, in which the academy is located, and truly amazing collections of paintings, graphics, plaster casts.
Collections of the museum
In addition to the educational institution, the Academy is also a real museum, as there are collections of works of art belonging to the authorship of great artists here. Among the exhibits:
- Gypsum – the original plaster casts created from the works of Luca della Robbia, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Antonio Canova.
- Art collection – a collection of paintings and graphics. Here you can find the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, Alberto Burri.
- The library contains over 16,600 pieces of specialized literaturethat tell about the history of art, artists, philosophy, cinema, literature, theater, languages, design, photography, religion, poetry, aesthetics and so on.
History
The Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vannucci was founded in the spring of the distant 1573. At that time it was known as the Academy of Design and, by the way, it started its activity 11 years after the first Academy of Italy – in Florence. The originators of the school were such masters as Orazio Alfani and Raffaello Sozi.
The Academy acquired its own constitution in 1791. But it got the current name in 1820 thanks to the artist and teacher of painting Tommaso Minardi. At the same time, modernization was carried out both from the training and from the administrative point of view. Now the educational institution united both ancient and modern art in itself. A scholarship program was launched that allowed students to travel to different cities in Italy.
In the early 20th century, the Academy moved to the building of the former monastery of San Francesco. Today it is one of the largest and most important cultural institutions of the city.
How to get there
The stop of P. S. Francesco is near the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia. You can get there by bus Z20.
Opening hours: the museum is open from Friday to Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00 (break – from 13:00 to 15:00).
The library is open from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:00.
